The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, is undergoing a revolution. There was once a time when the search for alien signals involved an exhausting and painstaking point by point search of each and every possible location in the sky, one at a time. Now with a new project called Laser SETI we have the first-ever all-sky all-the-time search. And today we’re joined here at The Star Spot by SETI Institute President Bill Diamond to discuss the promise and challenge of SETI’s paradigm-shifting new effort to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.

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About Our Guest

Bill Diamond is President and CEO of the SETI Institute.Prior to joining SETI,he was a technology executive and Silicon Valley veteran, withover 20 years of experience in the photonics and optical communications industry, and a decade in X-ray and semiconductor processing technologies. He holds a B.A. in physics fromHoly Cross College and a masters in business administration from Georgetown University.